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Jury done for the night, back tomorrow

Jury deliberations are headed to a second day at the Gerald Stanley second-degree murder trial in Battleford. The jury was sequestered shortly after 4 p.m.

Jury deliberations are headed to a second day at the Gerald Stanley second-degree murder trial in Battleford.

The jury was sequestered shortly after 4 p.m. Thursday afternoon, and with the exception of a dinner break, their deliberations continued well into the evening.

Deliberations went on uneventfully behind closed doors until 8:18 p.m., when counsel hastily reassembled in the courtroom upon word that the jury had a question.

According to Chief Justice Martel Popescul, it turned out the question was more of a request. The jury wanted to rehear Sheldon Stanley’s testimony from when he came out of the house. The jury also wanted to hear Gerald Stanley’s testimony from where he fired the first shot and on.

Discussion then ensued between Popescul and counsel about whether to isolate the testimony from both the main exam and the cross-examinations, or whether to replay the entire testimony from both witnesses.

After a 10-minute break, and after some discussion among lawyers for both sides, it was decided to replay the entire testimony from the two individuals.

The jury was called back in, with Popescul giving them the option of continuing on by listening to Sheldon’s hour-plus of testimony, or of resuming at 9 a.m. the next day.

Soon after, word came back that the jury had decided to break for the night. Deliberations are to resume at 9 a.m. Friday morning, when the jury will listen again to the entire testimony of both Sheldon Stanley and Gerald Stanley.

After court broke for the night. Jade Tootoosis, cousin of the shooting victim Colten Boushie, told reporters she and her family planned to be back again at the Battleford court house Friday.

Also, a memorial to Boushie was set up that night just outside the court house.